(I would also probably love *playing* in Odyssey of the Dragonlords, my last stint as a player finished 2yrs ago and that was AV, so 4+ years since a good classic outdoor campaign)

there's an Odyssey-like part in the Legacy of Fire AP where you also sail around a magical archipelago, hunt a golden ram, go on a bunch of myth-like quests to forge a sword, etc. And it's definitely my favourite bit of that campaign, and one of my most memorable ever. 🤔

I pulled these from the PDF and they really are very evocative. Islands are kind of perfect adventure hooks. You don't have to railroad, but you can't really get off-track. Presumably you're there for a task, and you have to explore until you get it done. They're like outdoor dungeons.

the amount that I loooooove just landing my players on a random island for 1-2 sessions makes me wonder if I would enjoy running Odyssey of the Dragonlords lol

anyway because I passively collect maps "just in case", I found what I needed pretty quickly in my Maps folder, and it looks 100x better than the pseudo-slop one. not sure what the moral of this story is. 🤔

Content-Aware Fill is an algorithmic tool that's been around in Photoshop since 2010. It has nothing to do with LLMs or Midjourney. It's kind of funny that it is essentially an innocent bystander in this culture war. And it does make a few of the common anti-AI arguments feel weaker.

Today, this looks like AI slop. I never used this map back then, and now, I'm not sure I want to. It looks much, much worse to my eye than it did back then. And "haha yeah sorry it's just the best photoshop I can do" carries a very different connotation. 🤔

circa 2022, i used Photoshop's "Content-Aware Fill" tool to modify some fantasy city maps for a campaign. The tool was mostly great for this, though occasionally the algorithm created some nonsense streets or ugly blurred areas.

you can probably see where this is going.

the devs say they're so mad about all the "phone in pool" and "vibe coding" jokes they're turning images off until we all apologize and admit that they're actually really smart and cool and we like them

Maybe I’m out of my element but I think “review score controversy” is accelerated by the 10-point scale. It’s super top-heavy because people get caught up in the grade school mentality of “gotta have a 70/100 to pass”.

More things should be 4/10. There should only ever a couple of 9/10s a year.

ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ＴＶ - TRI a (1983) YouTube video by LOCAL58TV

if you scan the QR code on that video you can get the fake website for "Thought Research Initiative", which leads to this unlisted video

babe wake up new Kris Straub analog horror just dropped

But if you just keep printing new spells for 40 years and going "shrug I guess that's closest to... Transmutation?" until some schools are 3x larger than others and the meaning of the words becomes useless, the mechanic is not doing anything anymore lol

If you design exactly 120 spells for your RPG and then split them evenly into 8 buckets of 15, then that's a fine tradeoff for interesting gameplay even if the split is is not thematically perfect

"what if you invented new schools and categorized things more precisely, like this could be in the Time school" (realizes i've just reinvented pf2e traits)

Time Stop is a Transmutation spell

the 8 schools of magic from D&D were cool *sometimes* and occasionally i feel their absence in pf2e, but a lot of shit just didn't make sense let's be honest

the scaling on that seems disgusting lol

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

oh jesus. I hope you're ok and it's not too serious!!

as I was looking at my level 16 party, I noticed that they *basically* had all 7 spells available, and I had a villain who needed to stall mid-fight as she was trying to perform a ritual. So it was probably the best chance I was gonna get to use it 👌

as far as I know, this spell largely has not changed in any edition since AD&D

it blocks everything, trying to walk through basically instakills you, and you need 7 specific spells to dispel it

That thing was "cast Prismatic Sphere and force players to get through it layer-by-layer" btw 🥰

I'm very excited for some BS i'm gonna pull tomorrow in Spore War because it checks off something I've had on a bucket list since probably 2005 😉

jk i am employed but just barely. you wouldn't think so from looking at my schedule or habits.

also my friends gas me up constantly that they do really like my campaigns so i'll take their word for it

Hunter S Thompson's daily routine (probably apocryphal) where he wakes up at 3pm, does coke and a bunch of other drugs like every 30 minutes, then finally starts writing at midnight, before finishing at 6am.

my daily routine to prep one session of a mediocre Pathfinder campaign for four employed friends in their 30s 🫡

This is from Reid Wiseman's instagram on the Earthset from Artemis II and its just so fucking wild to see.

Genuinely love him just going, "Dude. No way."

www.instagram.com/reels/DXVMcE...

holy shit now that's a cameo

Smell is the sense most closely linked to memory + smoking is becoming less common every year = every time someone lights a cigarette near me, i'm immediately taken back to a 90s Russian apartment building or train station

seeing Strixhaven pre-release photos makes me a bit nostalgic for when I went to those, but somehow a) the LGS i was going to was almost an hour away by transit b) the last time I went, it was SUPER crowded and they put like 30 people in a small room and I felt unwell and left after going 0-1 :(

it took me longer than I'd like to admit to learn that "crèche" is not a fantasy word Baldursgate made up but just actual British English 🤔🤔🤔